Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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